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colead

/ˈkəʊˌliːd/

colead noun: a joint lead; one of a group of actors who jointly take lead roles.

Noun

colead (plural coleads)

  1. A joint lead; one of a group of actors who jointly take lead roles.
    • Meanwhile, Wanger's wish list for the film's coleads included Sir Laurence Olivier as Julius Caesar and Richard Burton as Mark Antony. (The studio preferred Cary Grant and Burt Lancaster in these roles, respectively.)2006, James Robert Parish, Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops, page 23

Verb

colead (third-person singular simple present coleads, present participle coleading, simple past and past participle coled)

  1. To lead jointly.
    • A workshop dealing with "Our Place in Judaism" was co-led by gay male and straight female rabbis.1982 August 14, Aryeh Engel, Aliza Maggad, “Differences Into Unity”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 7
    • Last year, in April 1993, I co-led a party of birdwatchers to the island[.]2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 109

colead meaning in Bengali

colead in Bengali

যৌথ নেতৃত্ব, যৌথভাবে নেতৃত্ব দেওয়া

Forms of colead

Noun
pluralcoleads
Verb
third-person singular presentcoleads
present participlecoleading
past participlecoled
pastcoled

Origin of colead

From co- + lead.

Questions about colead

What does colead mean?
Colead means a joint lead; one of a group of actors who jointly take lead roles.
What is colead in Bengali?
Colead in Bengali is যৌথ নেতৃত্ব, যৌথভাবে নেতৃত্ব দেওয়া. See Colead meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is colead?
Colead can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce colead?
Colead is pronounced /ˈkəʊˌliːd/.
What is the plural of colead?
The plural of colead is coleads.

Words near colead in the dictionary

  1. Cole Harbour
  2. cole slaw
  3. cole slaws
  4. cole-prophet
  5. cole-prophets
  6. colead
  7. coleader
  8. coleaders
  9. coleading
  10. coleads
  11. Coleambally

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: colead (page history and authors); colead (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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